Data

General Issues
Economics
Specific Topics
Budget - Local
Location
Araras
São Paulo
Brazil
Scope of Influence
City/Town
Links
http://araras.sp.gov.br/noticias/13439
https://www.spadap.com/data-collection-projects/the-brazilian-participatory-budgeting-census/
Start Date
Ongoing
Yes
Facilitators
Yes
Face-to-Face, Online, or Both
Face-to-Face
Decision Methods
Voting
If Voting
Preferential Voting
Communication of Insights & Outcomes
Public Report
Public Hearings/Meetings
Traditional Media
Staff
Yes

CASE

Participatory Budgeting in Araras, Brazil

April 3, 2019 Jaskiran Gakhal, Participedia Team
November 9, 2018 Jaskiran Gakhal, Participedia Team
October 23, 2017 Paolo Spada
June 24, 2015 Paolo Spada
General Issues
Economics
Specific Topics
Budget - Local
Location
Araras
São Paulo
Brazil
Scope of Influence
City/Town
Links
http://araras.sp.gov.br/noticias/13439
https://www.spadap.com/data-collection-projects/the-brazilian-participatory-budgeting-census/
Start Date
Ongoing
Yes
Facilitators
Yes
Face-to-Face, Online, or Both
Face-to-Face
Decision Methods
Voting
If Voting
Preferential Voting
Communication of Insights & Outcomes
Public Report
Public Hearings/Meetings
Traditional Media
Staff
Yes

Since 2009, Araras, Brazil undertook a participatory budgeting project, which improves citizen engagement with processes of democratic deliberation.

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Problems and Purpose

The participatory budgeting process in Araras, a city in the interior of Brazil's state São Paulo, Brazil, began in 2009 and appears to be ongoing as of 2015.

Background History and Context

Organizing, Supporting, and Funding Entities 

Participant Recruitment and Selection 

Methods and Tools Used 

This initiative is an example of participatory budgeting, an increasingly common method of democratic innovation broadly described as "a decision-making process through which citizens deliberate and negotiate over the distribution of public resources." There are many benefits associated with participatory budgeting including increased civic and democratic education; increased government transparency; and an increased opportunity for participation by historically marginalized populations. [1] 

What Went On: Process, Interaction, and Participation

Influence, Outcomes, and Effects 

Analysis and Lessons Learned 

See Also

Participatory Budgeting  

Participatory Budgeting: Porto Alegre 2005-2007 

Participatory Budgeting in Andradina, São Paulo, Brazil 

References

External Links

http://www.spadap.com/data-collection-projects/the-brazilian-participato... [Participatory Budgeting Census 2012]

http://www.araras.sp.gov.br/e/?c=noticias&i=13439 [city website]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/187998588/Artigo-OP-Araras [article that covers in detail the period 2009-2012]

Notes

Preparing a write-up of this case will require knowledge of Portuguese (PBcensus 1 - complete raw data). Although there are no existing case studies in English on Araras, the city was surveyed in the Participatory Budgeting Census 2012 (Spada et al. 2012).  

The link above to an article in Portuguese has enough description to generate a full case for the period 2009-2012.

Three other types of cases have been conducted using the information contained in the Participatory Budgeting Census 2012 that are tagged for easier retrieval in the following way:

  • PBcensus 1 - complete raw data
  • PBcensus 2 - requires phone call
  • PBcensus 3 - requires significant research

Lead Image: Participatory Budgeting Araras https://goo.gl/aavuUr